San Diego Superior Court Judge Luis Vargas is scheduled to retire Jan. 6 after 20 years on the bench and will immediately star...
Cooley LLP represented the newest "big data" venture fund devoted to seed funding and Series A financing as the industry pulls...
Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP has bucked a lot of law firm trends. The firm doesn't have a summer associate program. It hi...
Government
Bar accuses lawyer of defrauding elderly doctor of $3.5 million
By Don Debenedictisn
Stanford Law School graduate Wade A. Robertson Jr. could be disbarred for allegedly misappropriating $3.5 million from a Maryl...
Golden Gate University School of Law on Wednesday announced Rachel Van Cleave as its new dean. ...
In a decision closely followed by lawyers involved in major law firm bankruptcies, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Wilson Sonsini gets job for Gilead in $510 million deal
By Andrew Mc Intyre
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC got the job of working for the Foster City-based company, the first acquisition the fi...
Invesco Advisors purchased a 278,000-square-foot industrial building in La Mirada for $27.5 million. Shaw Industries previousl...
Labor/Employment
Workers face uphill battle in circumventing arbitration agreements
By Laura Hautalan
With the U.S. Supreme Court's 2012 decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, employers are playing with a strengthened hand...
School districts have admitted that using tracking devices allows them to retain more state funding, which is tied to attendan...
Perspective
Appellate courts sharply disagree over continuing impact of Concepcion
By Ben Armisteadn
These issues are likely to come to a head over the next few years, as the U.S. Supreme Court, 9th Circuit and state Supreme Co...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit to consider whistleblower case en banc
By John Roemer
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday voted to review en banc a whistleblower case involving a Burbank police detec...
Criminal
After months behind bars, rabbi who refused to testify is freed by Los Angeles judge
By Ben Adlin
An orthodox rabbi who refused to testify before a federal grand jury was freed from jail late Monday after a Los Angeles judge...
Judges and Judiciary
AOC to study courts' effectiveness since unification
By Hannah Mitchelln
A state committee created by the governor and the chief justice to evaluate trial courts' funding asked judicial branch staff ...
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP advised genome sequencing company 23andMe in its $50 million Series D financing, furthe...
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is moving its Palo Alto office to bigger, better space less than two miles away in Stanford Research ...
Criminal
Architect faces manslaughter charge for firefighter's death in blaze at his home
By Henry Meier
It's an interesting case for prosecutors as they try to prove the defendant was willfully negligent in installing non-code co...
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Jesus G. Bernal to serve as a U.S. District Court judge in the Central District, filling ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit asks for help to decide if property owners must have defibrillators around
By John Roemer
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday voted 2-1 to duck the question of whether commercial property owners have...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Christopher C. Kearney takes over as Bar Association of San Francisco's 100th president
By Saul Sugarman
Top members of the Bar Association of San Francisco on Tuesday welcomed their newest president, Christopher C. Kearney, a part...
Litigation
Manatt, McKool Smith settle NFL players' malpractice suit for $3.5 million
By Hadley Robinson
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP and McKool Smith have agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a malpractice lawsuit against the...
The Arizona Supreme Court has given law students in that state a leg up over students elsewhere in the U.S. by allowing them ...
Government
San Bernardino shutters three courthouses amid deepening budget woes
By Katie Lucia
Courthouses in Barstow, Needles and Big Bear will close in March, the latest blow to a county court system grappling with slas...
Entertainment & Sports
Studios behind 'Hobbit' trilogy stop a knockoff, but impact may be limited
By Jean Yung
The studios behind the highly anticipated "Hobbit" trilogy have succeeded in preventing a direct-to-DVD knockoff from being re...
Judge Bernard Skomal is known as a 'roll-up-your-sleeves' kind of jurist, especially in settlements.
Labor/Employment
NLRB provides clarification of an acceptable social media policy
By Ben Armisteadn
Can an employer still have a social media policy that does not violate the National Labor Relations Act? According to the Nati...
Prior budget cuts have slowed things down considerably, but those changes are nothing compared to the changes that will soon b...
Perspective
Why did Twinkies' shelf-life suddenly expire (or did it)?
By Ben Armisteadn
Was Hostess' collapse the result of entitled unions, inept management, or was it simply the result of an adverse economic cli...
Intellectual Property
In potential problem for Apple, patent office invalidates 'Steve Jobs' patent
By Rachel Swan
In a setback for Apple Inc., the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a preliminary decision invalidating a patent co-i...
Labor/Employment
Plaintiffs can file for class certification in gender discrimination suit against Wal-Mart
By Laura Hautalan
Wal-Mart's effort to block a gender discrimination lawsuit hit an obstacle Monday when U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Br...